obama wins by five million votes. overwhelming majority in the electoral college. well, it's roughly a year later. we've got this, you know, now we have a conference committee on the debt. and what does everybody come in and talk about? well, maybe we can pull together a grand bargain. well, we can tinker around on social security, medicare and medicaid. well, with all due respect, i thought we settled that issue. we didn't settle it because "dollarocracy" has the ability to animate dead ideas. it, you can take an idea that's a bad idea, buried by the voters. "dollarocracy" can dig it up and that zombie idea will walk among us. >> so, when the conservative majority on the supreme court decides to monetize free speech, free speech becomes bought speech, we get what? >> what happened in the citizens united case is that it really had no effect whatsoever for 99% of the population. some very few people spend so much money, that being unleashed from existing laws would affect them. most people don't give money at all, and those that do only give $50 or $100, $200. and t